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Human Ancestors Made Deadly Stone-Tipped Spears 500,000 Years Ago
November 15th, 2012 |
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Human ancestors were fashioning sophisticated hunting weapons half a million years ago. An analysis of stone points from a site in South Africa called Kathu Pan 1 indicates that they were attached to shafts of wood and used as spears. The finding pushes the earliest appearance of hafted multicomponent tools back by some 200,000 years. [...]
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